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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Worth a Thousand Words: Gorgeous Stained Glass

Domestic window by Dirck Crabeth for the house of Adriaen Dircxz. van Crimpen, of Leiden. (1543)
via Wikipedia

Van Crimpen was a member of the government. The scenes show seven scenes from the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament and five scenes from the Acts of the Apostles. Though the house is still standing, the stained glass is now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

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KING OF THE HILL

Peggy: What if I'm not as smart as I always thought? What if I'm ... average?

Hank: Peggy, you have an IQ of 175. You said so yourself.

Peggy: Well, there could be a margin of error. Especially since it's my own estimate.

HOROSCOPE

Somehow you always thought that when you got to a certain age the clothes would be a lot better.

Note this is satire via The Onion (warning: site can contain explicit content). Satire means: trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.